On Saturday 18 August 2007 22:09:22 Richard Jonsson wrote: > Background: > I have this problem with mac80211 based drivers, but not with softmac drivers. > When unloading the module rmmod never quits and this message is repeated in > dmesg: > "unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to become free. Usage count = 1" > This only happens when logged in to kde, not in a runlevel3 terminal. > > > I have found that knetworkmanager has to do with this. If I have not > associated to a network through knetworkmanager, unloading works fine. If I > associate once, usage count in dmesg is reported as 1. If I associate 5 times > then usage count=5, etc. > > I believe knetworkmanager or some tool it uses doesn't release a handle, but > that brings the question: why does it work with the softmac drivers? > > Any suggestions how I can proceed to find the broken code? I don't even know > if it's knetworkmanagers fault, mac80211, b43 or something else.
It's a bug in mac80211 -- Greetings Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
